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February Challenge Voting - Map the Guild

Please vote for your favorite map(s), and be sure to be generous about repping those who participated in the challenge. The voting will last for 4 days and the winner will receive a golden compass, the praise, admiration and envy of his peers, and a box of well known Diamnd's cookies. May the best map win!

How do I choose? On one map I was given my own Tower Room, on the next I was given a Town, on the third I was given a whole species and not to be outdone, one named a star after me! While I cannot be bribed by such things, I don't mind if you keep trying!

I can't help it - i'm vain, when I saw my name on Azelors map I just couldn't help but give it to him.
That small fact aside, it's still an absolutely great map, it was tough to pick between them.

Edit: On second thought, after looking through these again this really was some tough competition, I don't know if my vote could of held up if I would of looked closer at some of them, like Diamonds and TheHoarseWhisperers. I can't give rep to diamond or Azelor due to previously repping them, but you have my congratulations.

There are some really great maps this month. Without wanting to sound arrogant (EDIT: something in which I probably failed), I genuinely do think my zoo is one of the best, but Diamond's nudges ahead of it (and it would be unseemly to vote for myself anyway). I'd give Azelor (a very close) 3rd place, Max 4th, and Cirias 5th. It really is a pity the other two entries weren't finished. I especially liked the progress on Vivi's Khartes.

For creativity and originality I went with Diamond and TheHoarseWhisperer (whose I had, somehow, completely not even seen previously). I love -Max-' tower, the final design (plus bonus guide on his process) was amazing, I just think the idea is a little too generic in comparison to the other entries and could have been any tower for any map.